NYS Music 20​14

Tag: NYC

  • DATSIK Announce Ninja Nation Tour, Includes Stops in Buffalo, Syracuse, NYC

    Hot off the brand new EP Down 4 My Ninjas, released by Firepower Records, which can be streamed below, ninja themed EDM DJ DATSIK announced the Ninja Nation Tour last night with special guest LOUDPVCK to open on select dates. The tour kicks off in Boston, MA on January 22 and will be stopping at the Terminal 5 in New York City January 24, also at Buffalo’s Town Ballroom on January 28, and at the F-Shed in Syracuse on January 29.

    datsik ninja nationSome of the other guest on this tour will include ETC! ETC!, Kennedy Jones, Trolley Snatcha, Truth, Barely Alive, Bear Grillz, Fox Stevenson and Twine.

    Tickets for the NYC show can be purchased here. For Buffalo click here. And for Syracuse click here.

    The dates can be viewed below:

    Thu 1/22 Boston, MA House of Blues
    Fri 1/23 Montreal, QC Metropolis
    Sat 1/24 New York City, NY Terminal 5
    Sun 1/25 Burlington, VT Higher Ground
    Wed 1/28 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom
    Thu 1/29 Syracuse, NY F Shed at The Market
    Fri 1/30 Hartford, CT The Dome
    Sat 1/31 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
    Wed 2/4 Knoxville, TN The International
    Thu 2/5 Norfolk, VA Norva
    Fri 2/6 Washington, DC Echostage
    Sat 2/7 Richmond, VA National
    Sun 2/8 Pittsburgh, PA The Altar Bar
    Mon 2/9 Pittsburgh, PA The Altar Bar
    Wed 2/11 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
    Thu 2/12 Cincinnati, OH Bogart’s
    Fri 2/13 Atlanta, GA Opera
    Sat 2/14 Detroit, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
    Tue 2/17 Chattanooga, TN Track 29
    Wed 2/18 Urbana, IL Canopy Club
    Thu 2/19 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room
    Fri 2/20 Chicago, IL Concord
    Sat 2/21 Chicago, IL Concord
    Tue 2/24 Iowa City, IA Blue Moose
    Wed 2/25 Lincoln, NE Bourbon Theatre
    Thu 2/26 Milwaukee, WI Miramar Theatre
    Wed 3/4 Aspen, CO Belly Up
    Thu 3/5 Grand Junction, CO Mesa Theater
    Fri 3/6 Denver, CO Ogden
    Sat 3/7 Denver, CO Ogden
    Wed 3/11 San Diego, CA Soma
    Thu 3/12 Los Angeles, CA Exchange
    Fri 3/13 Riverside, CA Riverside Auditorium
    Sat 3/14 San Francisco, CA Warfield
    Sun 3/15 Reno, NV The Knitting Factory
    Wed 3/18 Victoria, BC Distrikt
    Thu 3/19 Edmonton, AB Encore
    Fri 3/20 Vancouver, BC Commodore
    Sat 3/21 Calgary, AB Flames Central
    Fri 3/27 Seattle, WA Showbox Sodo
    Sat 3/28 Portland, OR Roseland Ballroom
    Wed 4/1 Lubbock, TX Wild West
    Thu 4/2 San Marcos, TX The Marc
    Fri 4/3 Houston, TX Stereo Live
    Sat 4/4 El Paso, TX Tricky Falls
    Wed 4/8 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
    Thu 4/9 Raleigh, NC The Ritz
    Fri 4/10 Charlotte, NC Fillmore
    Sat 4/11 Murfreesboro, TN Tempt

  • Punk Legend Billy Idol Announces Album, Tour and Autobiography

    Punk rock legend Billy Idol has released January and February dates for the latest leg of his world tour supporting “Kings & Queens Of The Underground” that begins in Europe next month. Tickets for these tour dates in Canada and The U.S.  go on sale Friday, October 10 on the heels of the release of his self-penned autobiography, Dancing With Myself on October 7.

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    Idol’s new album, his first in nearly ten years, hits the shelves on October 21 and is garnering pre-release raves for the single, “Can”t Break Me Down”, including from USA Today: “With its punkish drive, sneering vocals and roaring Steve Stevens guitar, ‘Can’t Break Me Down’ could have made a great follow-up to latter-day Idol hits.” Produced by Trevor Horn (with two tracks co-written and produced by multiple Grammy nominee Greg Kurstin) the anthemic lead single can be heard below.

    Idol will appear on NBC-TV’s Today Show on October 7 and the Howard Stern Show on Wednesday, October 8. The following day, Thursday, October 9, Idol will be interviewed live on stage as the keynote event of the 2014 CBGB Music and Film Festival in New York City.

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    Welcome back Billy, get out there and bust some balls!

    Billy Idol Winter 2015 U.S. Tour dates:
    January 21: House Of Blues, New Orleans, LA
    January 22, The Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
    January 24: Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA
    January 25: Lincoln Theatre, Washington, DC
    January 28: Beacon Theatre, New York, NY
    January 31: Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA
    February 3: Metropolis, Montreal, QC
    February 4: Massey Hall, Toronto, ON
    February 7: Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL
    February 9: Paramount Theatre, Denver, CO
    February 12: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC
    February 13: Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
    February 15: The Fox Theatre, Oakland, CA
    February 18: The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA

  • Primus Awards GOLDEN TICKET to Albany, NYC and Rochester

    Oompa Loompa Doopity Doo, has an announcement for you! Primus has announced their fall tour which includes Golden Ticket dates in Albany (10/24), New York City (10/31) and Rochester (11/02).

    primus golden ticketIf you didn’t get the hints, this tour will be Willy Wonka themed with the moniker “Primus and the Chocolate Factory”.

    Alongside the tour Les and friends will release their 8th studio album, aptly named “Primus and the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble“. The announcement also came with a first listen of the debut single “Pure Imagination”. These are sure to be hot golden tickets, don’t delay!

    Primus Fall Tour 2014

    October 22 – Upper Darby, PA @ Tower Theatre
    October 24 – Albany, NY @ Palace Theatre
    October 25 – Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
    October 26 – Burlington, VT @ Flynn Center for Performing Arts
    October 28 – Waterbury, CT @ Palace Theater
    October 29 – Baltimore, MD @ Hippodrome
    October 31 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre
    November 1 – New Brunswick, NJ @ State Theatre
    November 2 – Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory
    November 3 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit
    November 5 – St. Louis, MO @ Peabody Opera House
    November 7 – Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre
    November 8 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
    November 9 – Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live
    November 11 – Miami Beach, FL @ The Fillmore Miami Beach at The Jackie Gleason Theater
    November 12 – Clearwater, FL @ Ruth Eckerd Hall
    November 14 – Biloxi, MS @ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
    November 15 – Austin, TX @ ACL live at the Moody Theater
    November 16 – Dallas, TX @ The Majestic Theatre
    November 17 – San Antonio, TX @ Majestic Theatre
    November 19 – Phoenix, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre Phoenix
    November 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum Theatre LA

  • Queerpunk Band BOYS leads Anarchy in the BK

    10490237_10152116984681922_1374907791_nThe number of expensive hats and paper clip necklaces in the room—not to mention the Ty Segall lookalikes—would make you think you’re at Glasslands rather than a punk queercore show at some Park Slope venue best known for being “the bar next to that really good pizza place”. It’s Gay Pride Day in Brooklyn and the all girl band, “BOYS” (ha, ha) is ready to give the amassed dearly-beloved-we-have-gathered-here-today crowd all that they’ve got. Charged with duck taped ¥ signs on their jackets (can you say DIY), BOYS start the show with their fit fueled artillery. “My secret for getting by is acting like you care when you’re sleeping with random girls” sings Frances Rex on “Musical Beds”.

    Their set is full of Venus in Furs references and an Elliot Smith sense of self-doubt and betrayal. On “Self Control”, they sing, “All this dread fills my head/ Of your happiness in someone else’s bed”. On “Circles”, a song that beckons for the kind of emotional disengagement explored by Belle & Sebastian, you can hear a kind of spacey dark sound that takes cues from 90s alt rock.

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    As sad as the lyrics are, the crowd dances fervidly to the angry bass lines and it’s as if everybody finds themselves by singing about being lost together. The punk band, however, isn’t quite punk in the three chords sense of the word. Each member is a talented multi-instrumentalist in their own right—in fact, drummer Allie Falco happens to be in two other bands, Saint Rocco and Royal Garde. With their melodic hooks, vocal harmonies, and fast and loud energetic performance, the NYC born and raised band brings the crowd together by expressing its discontent with society’s disapproval of the gay, transexual, lesbian and transgender communities.

    For someone whose queer exposure is limited to Monika Treut screenings and late night conversations with the self proclaimed pansexual “Mexi Lexi” on Christopher Street, I felt more at ease in the chaos of a room full of proud queercore fans than I ever did in the homophobic city of Jakarta, where I grew up. And if you still seek reassurance—yes, couples were getting it on in the back row (ah, the true marker of a successful show). If you can’t make it to the Punk Island festival on June 21st, make sure to catch the band live at Fontana’s on the 26th!

  • Interpol Summer Tour Includes NYC Date

    Interpol made their mark on the US and UK alternative rock charts in the early 2000’s with hits such as “Slow Hands” and “Evil” and have a summer tour coming to NYC.  Combining a modern American rock sound with a ton of ’80s post-punk British influences like Joy Division, the band picked up a solid following of faithful “‘polsters”. Despite that, no one’s heard much from Interpol since their 2010 self-titled release, until just recently.

    The band has released an extensive, festival heavy tour schedule, including a June 7th date just across the border at the Field Trip Festival in Toronto and a homecoming show June 8th at The Governors Ball Music Festival in New York City.

    This will be their first time playing in the US in nearly three years.

    Here’s the full list of tour dates:

    Interpol Tour 2014

    06-03 New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place
    06-04 Providence, RI – Lupos
    06-05 Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
    06-07 Toronto, Ontario – Field Trip Festival
    06-08 New York, NY – Governor’s Ball
    06-20 Scheessel, Germany – Hurricane Festival
    06-20 Neuhausen, Germany – Southside Festival
    06-24 Paris, France – Alhambra
    06-25 London, England – Electric Ballroom
    06-27 Evreux, France – Rock Dans Tous Ses Etats
    06-29 Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Rock A Field
    07-01 Berlin, Germany – Postbahnhof
    07-02 Gdynia, Poland – Open’er Festival
    07-03 Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Fest
    07-06 Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
    07-08 Nimes, France – Nimes Festival
    07-10 Oeiras, Portugal – Optimus Alive
    07-12 Keflavík, Iceland – All Tomorrow’s Parties Iceland
    08-01 Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
    08-20 Tempe, AZ – The Marquee Theatre
    08-21 Las Vegas, NV – The Pool at The Cosmopolitan
    08-23 Los Angeles, CA – FYF Fest
    10-03 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival
    10-10 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival

    http://youtu.be/XmtsktxLYqs

  • Talking Heads Concert Film Turns 30, Select Anniversary Showings in NYC, Upstate NY

    Thirty years ago, Talking Heads released the concert film Stop Making Sense. It was filmed in 1983 over the course of three December nights at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater during the “Speaking in Tongues” tour. Directed by Jonathon Demme and produced by Gary Goetzman, this filmed has been highly acclaimed by fans and critics alike.

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    To celebrate this piece of music and cinema history, there are select theatrical rereleases this summer, including some showings in the NYC and Upstate areas. The Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY will be showing it May 22. The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be showing it two nights June 4 and 5. The Little Theatre in Rochester will be showing it June 16. And the Alamo in Yonkers will be screening it July 10. Also the Cinema Arts Center in Huntington, NY will get a screening but a date has yet to be announced.

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    The film shows Talking Heads at their best, with great shots and superior sound. With their hits firing on all cylinders such as “Burning Down the House,” “Psycho Killer,” and many more. The band really made it possible to bring the concert to experience to those where not fortune enough to see them during their hey day.

    Check below for all the screening dates and locations of Stop Making Sense.

    May 22 – Pleasantville, NY – Jacob Burns

    May 23-June 5 – Ogden, UT – Art House Cinema 502

    June 4-5 – Brooklyn, NY – BAM

    June 7 – Portland, OR – Reed College

    June 13-14 – Kansas City, MO – Tivoli Theatre

    June 13-19 – Missoula, MT – Roxy

    June 16 – Rochester, NY – Little Theater

    June 18-20 – Los Angeles, CA – New Beverly

    June 18, 22 – Columbus, OH – Gateway Film Center

    June 19-22 – Oak Cliff, TX – Texas Theatre

    June 22 – Phoenix, AZ Phoenix Center for the Arts

    July 3 – Littleton, CO – Alamo

    July 4-5 – Troy, OH – Mayflower

    July 10 – Yonkers, NY – Alamo

    July 14 – Austin, TX – Alamo Ritz

    July 15, 17 – Kalamazoo, MI – Alamo

    August 1-3 – Seattle, WA – SIFF Cinema

    August 6 – Lexington, KY – Kentucky Theatre

    August 14 – Houston, TX Miller Outdoor Theatre

    August 14, 16 – Chicago, IL – Music Box

    August 22-24 – Kansas City, MO – Armour

    September 6 – New Orleans, LA – Shotgun Cinema

    September 6, 8 – Silver Springs, MD – AFI Silver

    September 19 – Kansas City, MO Kansas City Public Library

    TBD – Kingston, Canada Screening Room Cinema

    TBD – Los Angeles, CA – Oscar Theatre

    TBD – Huntington, NY – Cinema Arts Center

    TBD – Portland, OR – Academy Theater

    TBD – Portland, OR – Northwest Film Center

    TBD – Memphis, TN – Indie Memphis

    TBD – Nashville, TN – Belcourt Theater